Archival Data Review

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Authors: Drake Van Egdom, Rebecca Storey, Christiane Spitzmueller, Kimberly French
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Abstract

This paper reviews the use of archival data in the micro-level organizational sciences literature. This OSF page contains data, code, and additional tables and figures used to synthesize results. For the umbrella review, we include: (1) Search results for PsycINFO (2) Search results for Web of Science (3) A table of all archival data sets and data archives discussed in the umbrella review papers (includes links and a brief description of the data set). We did not include data sets or archives that we could not find. (4) An excel file summarizing information extracted from the umbrella review, including: (a) definitions and types of archival data, (b) benefits, (c) limitations, (d) data sets/archives mentioned, (e) recommendations For the editorial board member survey, we include: (1) R code (2) Rmarkdown output of all results (3) Visualization of the Cohen's D estimates from the Study 2 quantitative data (4) Qualitative comments compiled to inform recommendations Data to run the code are available from the first author upon request. For the critical review, we include: (1) The codebook (2) Data (3) R code (4) Rmarkdown output of all results (5) A table of the frequency of archival data in the seven journals reviewed tabulated by journal and year (6) PRISMA diagram of the systematic review search For the robustness check review (in critical review), we include: (1) Data (2) R Code (3) Rmarkdown output of all results (4) Table comparing the original critical review findings with the robustness check review findings

Fields of Study & Subjects

Data Analysis and Archiving Research Data Management Practices Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

Publication details

Journal / source
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Publication date
9 February 2026
Document type
Preprint